A new catalyst may enable mixed plastic recycling The future of plastic recycling could soon become far simpler and more efficient. Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a new plastic ...

The age of pre-sorting mixed plastic waste may soon be over. The secret weapon? A cheap catalyst made from nickel that ...

Not all plastic is the same. Old yogurt cups and milk jugs, for example, don’t play well together when being turned into new ...

We know that most plastics thrown into the recycling bin don’t get recycled, but what about the ones that do? According to new research, those also end up spitting bits of plastic back into the ...

Plastics are everywhere—in the packaging around your food, the insulation in your home, and even the parts of your phone.

A Northwestern University team has developed a nickel-based catalyst that can recycle mixed polyolefin plastics — even when ...

ExxonMobil is pausing 100 million euros ($118.4 million) of investment in European plastic recycling because of draft EU ...

The company’s senior vice-president, Jack Williams, said that while local support for the projects was strong, EU policy was ...

Recycling polyolefin plastics is inefficient and costly because their strong bonds make them hard to break down and require tedious pre-sorting. The future of plastic recycling may soon get much less ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For the past two weeks, ABC13 Meteorologist Elyse Smith has covered how the City of Houston manages recycling, specifically looking at how plastic is recycled. And when it ...

KIMM’s research team has succeeded in developing the world’s first ultra-high-temperature plasma torch powered entirely by hydrogen. Operating at 1,000–2,000 °C, the torch decomposes mixed waste ...

Belgium-based RecyClass ’ Recycling Process Certification has become the leading certification for plastics traceability and ...